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About Coco_Clark

  • Birthday 12/25/1985

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    Female
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    WA
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    Christian Orthodoxy, Charlotte Mason, Classical Education

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    My kids are 15, 14, 13, 13, 11, 10, 1, and baby. 4 homeschooled, 2 in public/charter, and two babes
  • Location
    Spokane WA
  • Interests
    Preschool, knitting, Orthodoxy
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    SAHM

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  1. How did you all fulfill your health credit? I see Apologia has a program, it looks beefy. Maybe unnecessarily beefy. There's the PACE health, which... I don't like the "people with healthy issues physical or mental are a drain on society" vibe. What else is there?
  2. Any tips or resources for a gardening unit? I'm looking for high school level and would want to include both reading and practical application (actually planting a garden). I am not a gardener myself.
  3. I mean that I'm trying to sweeten the pot because she needs a tech credit but has no interest in computers. She's very creative so I think photography editing would appeal.
  4. I'm suffering from too many options. I'm looking for a photography editing course meaty/technical enough to count as a high school tech credit. There are sooo many options. Ideally it would cover both photography and editing, but the editing part is what she's most interested in. I know photography is generally an art credit but this is a VERY computer averse child so I'm doing what I can.
  5. I have a 15yo that will finish up Algebra 2 around Dec/Jan of next year (long story short, a bad case of covid put him several months behind in math and we never caught up). I don't want to put him in Pre-Cal because he won't have time to finish it before he does DE at the local community college the next year. I considered a semester of Stats. But after his tests scores I'm realizing a refresher on computation may be a better choice. This kid did amazing on concepts but apparently has forgotten some basic arithmetic (long division, ect). 🙄 Any resources for something like that?
  6. Dorothy Heyer wrote surprisingly good historical romances, and they are all clean. I enjoy them a lot, as does my 15yo daughter.
  7. 4th time through with 8th grade and feeling like I have a good grip on the jump into high school. Math: Finishing up AOPS Algebra and then hitting one of their smaller side books. Writing: Writing and Rhetoric 8, a daily sentence to diagram, and Sequential Spelling. Plus regular narration and common placing. History/Literature: Story of the Ancients, Story of the Greeks, and Story of the Romans by Miller. Paired with the Iliad, Odyssey, and Shakespeare's Julius Caesar. Plus quite a bit of mythology, some Plutarch and a touch of ancient poetry. Science: Berean Builders Chemistry with his older siblings. Extras: I'm letting this kid quit Latin this year because he hates it with a passion. He's really interested in ASL so trying to figure out if there's a politically correct way to learn that. It's a whole worm can, apparently. He will continue in Homeschool band where he plays trombone. Hiking and ice skating will count as PE.
  8. DS, last year before he starts dual enrolling for most of his school 😞 Math- finish up D.O. Algebra 2 (a bad bout of covid put his math at odds with his school year) then do a semester of statistics or maybe double time it through Mr D consumer math. Programming or Tek lvl 4 with Mytek- will decide after we see the schedule, right now level 4 would mean an 8am class 😬 DD, thankfully not leaving me yet Math- Saxon Algebra 1 Sign Language- still looking for a good class. Maybe Mr. D? BOTH: Writing- finish up the Writing and Rhetoric series with books 11 and 12. Literature/Social Studies- Ancients using the Old Western Culture Greek DVDs. Science- Berean Builders Chemistry
  9. I have an 8th grader and 10th grader interested in American sign language. We know several families that use it so we would potentially get a lot of practice. I like that Life print looks like it gets you having conversations right away, it's not just a list of vocab. But Im struggling to know how to use it/how to organize lessons with it. Any advice? Im also looking at Mr D, which is much more straight forward as to planned lessons. But will it teach grammar/culture? Or is it just vocab? Has anyone used either program and could give a review?
  10. I used an exel form in the past but this year (1 year old plus a pregnancy) I've just been doing what's next and honestly? It works just as well. kids range 10-15. My daily line up, for the record, is: Current Events (CNN10) Prayers and hymn (new one each month) Bible (read the next chapter, when we get to the end of a book, pick a new book) Saint Story (saint of the day) Memory Work (group new, individual new taking turns picking things, 1 from weekly review, 2 from long term review) Poetry Reading (same poem for 3 days) and picture study the 4th day Lit reading (chapter a sat, when we get to the end, pick a new book) History Reading (chapter a day)
  11. Any suggestions for a high school level creative writing course? Half or full credit would both work. Online or self paced. We are coming off of Writing and Rhetoric Thesis and need a bit of an essay break, but I don't want to stop writing all together. She does enjoy writing stories/creative writing in general. Editing to add she's sitting next to me and said a poetry course might even be fun. 🤷
  12. I feel like 6th/7th grade just takes forever. It's a distractible age. If the time isn't killing her I'd just let it be, safe in tht knowledge that she will get over this developmental hump sometime next year 😂
  13. This would be for my current high school students, who don't have phones yet. I have ds12 in AOPS Introduction to Algebra (hasn't needed a calc yet, but I assume will soon), ds13 in public school Algebra 1 (teacher recommends one about halfway through the year), dd14 in Saxon Pre-A (won't need one for quite a while I think), and ds14 in Derek Owens Algebra 2 (the current calculator user). I may even end up with two calculators depending how needs fall.
  14. My 20 year old graphing calculator is finally dead. Big line down the screen. It's a Texas instrument TI 89, and I was just going to buy another just like it. But there's a TI 84 that's in color, and a CAS that's cheaper and says it does more. Now I'm doubting myself. Is there a calculator that just blows the others out of the water?
  15. Thanks, I'll look into Khan, because outsourcing to something fairly independent sounds great tbh. I used quite a bit of icivics when I did a late elementary/middle school, 1 quarter long, government run through a few years ago. It was quality but a LOT of work on my end to put together.
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